Our Customers

Achieving Success Together for Over 30 years

HR technology may be a hot category right now, but for us it's always been hot. We've been around since 1985, longer than almost all the other vendors in the space, and we've been building best practices and unique skills that benefit our customers every day. Our customers include a range of Fortune 500 companies, and smaller, high-growth companies spanning nearly 160 countries. Today, our customers, including several of Fortune’s “Best Places to Work,” rely on SumTotal’s on premise and cloud-based Talent Expansion applications to enable their employees.

Customer Statistics

Nearly 30 years experience in HR

Designed for global enterprises as well as small- & mid-sized companies

Average customer size of 17,000 employees

Half the Fortune 500 are customers

Deployed in 160 countries and 29 languages

96% customer retention

of the World’sLargest Airlines

Largest globalManufacturers

HealthcareOrganizations

Largest U.S.Manufacturers

of the World’s BiggestOil Companies

Largest U.S.Commercial Banks

Top US Federal/State Agenciesand Military Organizations

U.S. PharmaceuticalCompanies

Accounting andConsulting Firms

Industries We Serve

Financial Services

Business & Consulting Services

Healthcare

Retail

Government

Industrial Manufacturing

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals

Education

Airlines

Technology & Communications

Financial Services

Because we work with four of the five largest U.S. commercial banks among our many financial services clients, we know how to deliver a unique combination of enterprise-class strategic solutions, content, and professional services to cost-effectively address the specific needs of the financial services industries, including global and regional banks, securities and brokerage firms, and insurance companies.

Business & Consulting Services

Within business services industries, people and the intellectual capital they generate must meet regulatory requirements. These are challenges these workforces must navigate. Because we work with four of the top five accounting and consulting firms, we understand how to deliver solutions for this industry, including accounting and auditing, finance and tax advisory, management consulting, and technology services.

Healthcare

Healthcare organizations face multiple challenges - from balancing the need to control medical staffing costs while still delivering high-quality care, to managing a unique set of healthcare compliance requirements that include federal and state laws and regulations. As a result, healthcare companies have complex workforce, training, and data reporting needs. And with high turnover rates in key clinical roles, healthcare organizations need to focus on employee engagement, satisfaction, and development to help retain their people and develop the next generation of leaders.

Today, SumTotal helps hundreds of the world’s leading healthcare organizations stay up to date on required skills and certifications, schedule based on skill, competency and performance to increase patient satisfaction, increase their employee retention rate, effectively develop their people, and meet the evolving needs of the healthcare industry.

Retail

To survive and thrive today, retailers must attract the best people, efficiently hire them, rapidly train them, retain them by providing advancement and development opportunities, and compensate them appropriately — all while aligning employees’ efforts with the organization's overall strategies. SumTotal works with some of the world’s largest retailers to efficiently manage the talent pipeline and attract and retain the right talent: people with the proper skills and level of proficiency, as well as those who are deeply customer-focused.

Government

SumTotal is the engine behind some of the largest talent and development initiatives in the public sector, serving more than 50 agencies. Federal agencies deploying SumTotal have saved taxpayers millions of dollars by reducing expenses associated with traditional training, workforce readiness and knowledge management.

We’ve also been the engine behind many initiatives in state and local governments, serving more than 30 top federal agencies across the nation, including: Washington Department of Social & Health Services and the State of North Dakota. We help smaller agencies unify talent and learning initiatives across departments to eliminate redundant procurement and licensing costs.

Industrial Manufacturing

Maintaining market share today means creating high-quality, low-cost products while operating on tighter margins. To succeed in this environment, industrial manufacturers need to manage a highly productive and cost-effective manufacturing workforce. SumTotal helps three of the five largest global manufacturers and hundreds of other industrial organizations to develop workforces and comply with state, federal, or global labor laws. Such regulations include everything from OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act), and FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act), to complex union and work rules.

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Consumer goods companies are under constant pressure to bring creative and innovative products to market, differentiate themselves, and compete effectively in a global marketplace. Many face razor-thin margins, so optimization of core business processes has traditionally focused on R&D; new product introduction (NPI) and time-to-market; manufacturing operations; upstream supply chain management; and downstream product availability and store placement. SumTotal works with many CPG companies to optimize talent strategies that drive creativity and innovation, reduce costs, and improve efficiency.

Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals

The life sciences industries are undergoing systematic structural change, driven by consolidation and convergence, globalization and emerging markets, cost constraints, and increased competition. SumTotal’s work with seven of the top 12 U.S. pharmaceutical companies gives us unparalleled expertise in effective core HR and talent management processes across life sciences industries such as prescription pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and generic medicines.

Education

Educational institutions' challenges are similar to those faced by other public sector organizations, including economic and budgetary pressures, increased competition for top-notch people, compliance, and a rapidly changing, diverse workforce that must be effectively managed. SumTotal works together with educators to cost-effectively address the specific needs of educational institutions, including K-12 school districts and public and private colleges.

Airlines

SumTotal has 30 years of experience helping the world’s airlines retain and grow their talent, and run more efficiently and effectively. We have unmatched experience managing complex compliance for training employees, increasing employee engagement with talent management, and handling dynamic schedules with workforce management processes for the world’s largest airlines. We've worked with organizations such as American Airlines, United, Delta, Air France, British Airways, US Airways and Air Canada, as well as regional airlines such as SkyWest and Air New Zealand. Our solutions are available anywhere, in the cloud or on-premise, with support for many languages in over 160 countries.

Technology & Communications

Innovation, creativity, and short product lifecycles are the cornerstones of high tech and communications, yet many companies struggle to find, attract, develop, train, and retain the highly skilled and educated leaders and employees who ultimately drive corporate growth. SumTotal helps these companies address their talent, training, and workforce needs, whether the company produces computer-related technologies (software, hardware, networking), consumer electronics, semiconductors, or communications equipment.